(102) Evasion

RATING:

2-1/2 bayonets

Guest star Lloyd Bochner

Written by Esther
and Bob Mitchell Directed by John Peyser First aired 19-Oct-1965 Episode 6 of Season 4

SYNOPSIS:

Hanley escapes from a Nazi prison camp and dons a perfectly tailored
Albanian uniform. He is thwarted by sharp-eyed Hitler youth with a passion for arcane
military uniforms. Fortunately, Hanley is turned over to a better disguised Allied
officer, Major Thorne, who is escaping in an authentic German uniform. In their adventures
in France, Thorne and Hanley encounter a real Albanian officer, get captured by the
Gestapo, and are rescued by an attractive woman. Plus, Hanley demonstrates his PPT skills
(beautiful woman variant) to good result. (PPT -- patented pep talk)

REVIEW:

Lloyd Bochner plays Thorne, a stiff-upper-lip, unflappable British
intelligence agent who aids Hanley. I find this character type annoying (as does Hanley).
But if a story must have an annoying British twit, he might as well be played by a great
actor. Bochner does everything but chew the scenery, but does it so "British"
that I applaud his tenacity and verve.

Earl Parker performs a great stunt, climbing out a second-story window, crawling down a
long rope, and dropping into a river. He also went over a small waterfall doubling for
Rick. The stunt work was filmed in Loire, France.

ABOUT FILMING THE EPISODE:

Rick Jason says, "I tell you, where I'm in the water and you see the
back of my head wearing a wool cap, I would swear it looked like me. They intercut that at
the studio and you cannot tell the difference ... I remember the intercuts. It stuck in my
mind, I thought, 'My God, they're good the way they did this stuff.' And you see me going
down through the waterfalls but you never see my face, you only see me wearing a wool
cap." He didn't know why they wanted him to wear the cap until he saw the episode.

CAST:

Monique le Maire as Julie John Lodge as Major Ramsey
Anthony Rogers as Lt. Maples John Levingston as Capt. Todd Phil Bonnell as Frost
Herb Andreas as German Lieutenant Willy Kaufman as German Ticket Agent
Peter Marks as Max Ralph Josephs as Hans Normand Houle as French Waiter
Socrates Ballis as Albanian Soldier Karl Sadler as German Lieutenant
Robert Chapman as German Guard and Jacques Aubuchon as Kopke